I am committed to the culturally restorative power of research.
My research and teaching focus, as well as my administrative interests, center on the academic experiences of underrepresented students and faculty, institutional racism, and pedagogical innovations in teaching racism and privilege in higher education classrooms.
– Jasmine Harris
Dr. Jasmine L. Harris
Dr. Jasmine L. Harris is Professor and Department Chair of Africana Studies at the Metropolitan State University of Texas of Denver. Dr. Harris completed her PhD at the University of Minnesota in 2013 and earned tenure in 2020.
Dr. Harris views her research, teaching, and service as intertwined, each influencing and shaping the others. Her examinations of Black life in predominately white spaces are founded on personal experiences, including Black students at PWIs, Black DI football and men's basketball players at universities in the Power 5 conferences, and Black sociologists producing knowledge in a white-dominated discipline. Dr. Harris has been published in major national newspapers, including Newsweek, The Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, and the Chicago Tribune. In 2021, she was featured in the Vice News documentary "College Sports, Inc."
Repped by The Howland Literary Agency in New York City, her book, Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education, was published in 2024 by Broadleaf Books.
